KDE has the concept of a "Workspace" which reminded me of the OS/2 idea, and extends it to add Desktop chrome and widgets. Just like in OS/2, for me the idea was interesting but never made it into my toolkit. - an ex-CAOS/2 member

I have, perhaps modern enough (the last of them in service in the mid-90s) that there was no "racket", but rather what sounded like leaves rustling as the relays chattered away. There was one lone remaining section of walls of relays installed in racks, and I asked for and got one - it's about the size of a Mars Bar.

Costco is not in the retail business to sell products - Costco's business model uses retail sales to get CASH, which it then invests in arbitrage and currency markets. Before debit cards etc. Costco stores had pneumatic tubes that cashiers used to clear their tills of all but enough cash to make change. That cash was invested on an hourly basis. Thus, Costco was an early pioneer in retail that was essentially a line of cashiers at the exit of a warehouse. The only difference from other retailers is that Costco spends little on marketing or merchandising - prices uber alles and that means cash for the backroom boys to invest.

By the same author, The Calculus of Saying I Love You

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-calculus-of-saying-i-love-you/

I laughed when I read about this - I thought "Gee, now that slug has to do even LESS to survive - what a slug!"

I have one of those keyboards and I've never figured out how to re-map those keys since they appear to generate 2 keycodes. How do you do it?

In high-school chemistry I saw a chart like this, though arranged to accommodate the rare earths as their own separate but related group. It was nerd art for me - each element was assigned a shade of blue or red to indicate pH. I ordered two and they came with additional materials explaining the new chart. The charts are packed away, but I just looked up the hand-outs and tried to Google but found nothing. But, one of the had-outs is a reprint of a write-up in Chemistry magazine of September 1976. It was created by James Franklin Hyde, who is apparently the Father of Silicones acording to Wikipedia.

Oh, here's a link I just found to the chart http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=164

For the Internet Database of Periodic Tables, see http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?Button=Spiral+Formulations